Our POA fall annual meeting.

[Kiwi]

Our board has sent out an invite to our POA annual fall meeting.

The agenda is laid out in a format of their choosing with no allowance for we the members the right for added agenda topics. The board is under the assumption they don't need to listen to the POA members, this has been passed through from board to board.

Who is the meeting for, the POA or the board?

[jstackpo]

Well...  that may depend on the bylaws of the POA.  My experience is that many POAs have bylaws that give complete authority and power to the Board.

Are yours like that?  If so get yourself on the Board and set out to amend the bylaws to distribute power to the people!

[Guest Who's Coming to Dinner]

If this is a board meeting, then the board runs it. If this is a meeting of the association, then the members of the association control the meeting unless the bylaws provide otherwise. It cannot be both at the same time.

[Kiwi]

4 hours ago, Guest Who's Coming to Dinner said:

If this is a board meeting, then the board runs it. If this is a meeting of the association, then the members of the association control the meeting unless the bylaws provide otherwise. It cannot be both at the same time.

This not a board meeting, this one of the 2 members meetings held each year set forth by our Bylaws. I hope this sheds some better light on the workings of our POA.

I have been a past President of this POA.

The board has no power to change either the Bylaws nor the CC&R's this is done by 2/3 majority of the POA members.

 

Bylaws.

SECTION 4.

Meetings and Required Votes. 

The Association shall notify members, qq)via United States first class mail, of the date, time and place of each regular or special members’ meeting, at least ten (10) days but not more than sixty (60) days before the meeting date.  The Association shall hold a minimum of two (2) regular meetings each year, one every spring and one in late summer or early fall.  Special meetings of the members may be called by the President, a majority of the Board of Directors, or by members having not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the votes entitled to be cast in the Association.  Hunting members, as that term is defined in Article II, Section 5 of these Bylaws, having not less than ten percent (10% ) of the votes entitled to be cast with regard to any matters concerning hunting rights, hunting privileges, hunting obligations, or the Rules and Regulations, may call special hunting member meetings.  Meetings of the members shall be held at the principal office of the Association.  Subject to Article II, Section 6 of these Bylaws, at any meeting of the members called and held in accordance with these Bylaws, if a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of members entitled to cast two-thirds (2/3) of the votes, present and voting either in person or by proxy, are necessary to adopt the matter.

[Guest Zev]

Member Kiwi: You did not answer Mr. Stackpole's question. Do the bylaws of this organization grant the board the power to set the agenda of these meetings and at the same time prevent any measure that would add to the meeting's agenda? Is there some kind of legal restriction that prevents new business from being introduced from the floor? Does the presiding officer follow the standard order of business and eventually calls for motions under the category of new business?

[Josh Martin]

On 9/18/2018 at 4:21 PM, Kiwi said:

Our board has sent out an invite to our POA annual fall meeting.

The agenda is laid out in a format of their choosing with no allowance for we the members the right for added agenda topics. The board is under the assumption they don't need to listen to the POA members, this has been passed through from board to board.

Who is the meeting for, the POA or the board?

The meeting is for the POA. The board lacks the power to take the actions in question, unless such power is granted to the board by our their rules or applicable law.

EDIT: Pronoun fix.

Edited September 19, 2018 at 10:09 PM by Josh Martin

[Guest Zev]

1 hour ago, Josh Martin said:

...by our rules...

Mr.Martin: is this correct or did you mean to say "by their rules"?

[Josh Martin]

2 hours ago, Guest Zev said:

Mr.Martin: is this correct or did you mean to say "by their rules"?

I did mean to say “by their rules.”